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84 set to the eastward and southward (with a NW. wind) for at least ten hours. Cape Thompson to the eastward from Pt. Hope is high bluff & bold; northward from Pt. Hope the land is high bluff seeming to be composed of much tilted & twisted stratified rocks, mostly dipping about 20° to 50° to the eastward and southward. Cape Lisburne with which we come up about 7 P.M. is high, bluff and bold composed of much metamorphosed limestone beds containing large masses of silicious material which stands out along its edges in sharp pinnacles. From its extreme a long narrow band of shoal water extends as indicated by the charts, several miles but probably with not less than three fathoms on it. We crossed it in 5 1/4 fathoms and came to anchor under the lee of the cape in 7 fms muddy bottom about 8.35 P.M. [[line]] Saturday Aug 21/80 [[line]] [[page includes table with 7 columns - "|" used to better distinguish separate column fields for readability.]] [[table]] [[table headings:]] Time. | Bar. | Ther. | Dry b. | Wet b. | Water. | Wind 4 A.M. | 29.92 | 47 | 47 | 47 1/2 | 49 | NE 8 " [[ditto for: A.M.]] | 30.00 | 48 | 49 | 49 1/2 | 48 | " [[ditto for: NE]] 12 M. | 30.06 | 53 | 53 | 52 1/2 | 50 1/2 | " [[ditto for: NE]] [[/table]] [[end page]] [[start page]] 85 [[page includes table with 7 columns - "|" used to better distinguish separate column fields for readability.]] [[table]] [[table headings:]] Time. | Barom. | Ther. | Dry b. | Wet b. | Water | Wind. 2 P.M. | | 80 | | | | 4 " [[ditto for: P.M.]] | 30.17 | 53 | 58 1/2 | 59 | 50 | Calm 8 " [[ditto for: P.M.]] | .12 | 52 | 52 | 52 | 51 | NE 12 " [[ditto for: P.M.]] | .16 | 49 | 49 1/2 | 50 | 50 1/2 | " [ditto for: NE]] [[/table]] Morning mostly cloudy, sun out at times P.M. half clear. Calm until evening when we have light airs. Observations at the mouth of a small stream about 2 miles eastward from the Cape, for dip, intensity declination, time and latitude. Get a serial sounding, showing a gradual diminution of temperature of one degree from top to bottom. The shore here is sandy & gravelly backed by banks of waterworn pebbles, sand &c, covered with a six foot layer of vegetable mould. This bank rises to a height of fifteen or twenty feet and slopes gradually toward rounded limestone hills, for the most part bare of vegetation and greatly weathered so that the superficial rock is crumbled into gravel by the frost. The usual northern vegetation covers the low lands with an olive green mantle. A good many flowers, including the forgetmenot, monks
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See pp. 5 & 7 for how to transcribe dittos, suggestions on tables.
